Category: Biographies
ZERAH COLBURN, 7 BARATIERE, 26 GASSENDI, 29 PASCAL, 33 GROTIUS, 39 NEWTON, 43 MAGLIABECCHI, 48 CRICHTON, 52 BERONICIUS, 59 MASTER CLENCH, 64 JEDEDIAH BUXTON, 67 WILLIAM GIBSON, 72 EDMUND STONE, 76 RICHARD EVELYN, 78 QUENTIN MATSYS, 82 WEST, 87 BERRETINI, 93 HENRY KIRK WHITE, 9...
A few days after the battle of Lexington, a project was started at Hartford, Connecticut, for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, then belonging to the British. Several persons set...
17. Part 17Notwithstanding this excessive meanness, Mr. Elwes displayed many instances of generosity. On one occasion, he lent Lord Abington £7000, at a very critical moment, and entirely...
14. Part 14After the failure of several other attempts, he finally succeeded in effecting his escape, and fled to Vienna. From thence, he went to St. Petersburg, where he was received with...
12. Part 12Robin and his friends were so sharply hunted by the sheriff of Nottinghamshire, that they deemed it prudent to retire to the forests of Barnesdale, where they gaily pursued thei...
11. Part 11It was now the beginning of July; the country lay in the forty-seventh degree of latitude; the dry sand of the desert rendered the heat of the sun the more insupportable; the ho...
5. Part 5He went by the name of Willy-o'-th'-Hollins, for many years after he left his residence in that place. The latter portion of his life was spent in the neighborhood of Cartmell,...
15. Part 15During the winter of which we speak, Hunter's card-rack was crowded with cards, notes, and invitations, from lords and ladies of the very highest rank and fashion, in London. Ma...
6. Part 6This youthful bard, whose premature death was so sincerely regretted by every admirer of genius, was the son of a butcher of Nottingham, England, and born March 21, 1788. He man...
8. Part 8Being robbed of all his baggage and property in the Low Countries by some dastardly Frenchmen, he fortunately met with great kindness and generosity from several noble families....
16. Part 16Having resolved, however, to make the trial, he began with one William Maher, who was brought to the house by his father, for the purpose of receiving some assistance from Mrs....
10. Part 10Crockett now removed to the borders of the Obion, and settled in the woods, his nearest white neighbor being seven miles off. The country around gradually became peopled, and in...
3. Part 3Hugo Grotius, celebrated for his early display of genius and learning, as well as for his adventures and writings in after life, was born at Delft, in Holland, April 10, 1583. H...
13. Part 13Thomaso Aniello, called by corruption Masaniello, was born at Amalfi, in Italy, about the year 1622. He established himself at Naples, where he obtained a living by catching and...
4. Part 4In consequence of this and his other wonderful performances, the duke of Mantua made choice of him for preceptor to his son, Vicentio de Gonzago, who is represented as being of...
2. Part 2The health of his father now began to give way. Unhappily, he had, from the first discovery of his son's extraordinary gifts, looked upon them with mercenary feelings--as a sour...
7. Part 7In this manner passed the first seventeen years of the life of George Morland; and to this unremitted diligence and application he was indebted for the extraordinary power he po...
1. Part 1ZERAH COLBURN, 7 BARATIERE, 26 GASSENDI, 29 PASCAL, 33 GROTIUS, 39 NEWTON, 43 MAGLIABECCHI, 48 CRICHTON, 52 BERONICIUS, 59 MASTER CLENCH, 64 JEDEDIAH BUXTON, 67 WILLIAM GIBSON,...
18. Part 18We have already given some account of giants: we must say a few words in respect to dwarfs. These have never been known to be distinguished for their talents, though their figur...